Amtrak to Cancel All Long-Distance Trains for Now

Amtrak to Cancel All Long-Distance Trains for Now
Passengers board an Amtrak train inside New York's Penn Station in New York on July 7, 2017. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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DETROIT—Passenger railroad Amtrak said it will temporarily cancel all of its long-distance trains starting on Thursday because of a potential freight rail work stoppage that could start the following day.

Amtrak workers are not involved in the labor dispute, but the railroad operates almost all of its 21,000 route miles outside the U.S. Northeast Corridor on track owned, maintained and dispatched by freight railroads.